banks

These five trends are changing the world of financial services

The world of financial services is changing. FinTech is shaking up the market and people want different things from their…

BlackRock’s success boosted by focus on passive funds

BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, is set to control close to $6tn in the coming months, judging by the…

Catalan suspends declaration of independence: how have the markets reacted?

Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders signed a suspended declaration of independence from Spain last night, easing concerns of…

India independence: these are the top 10 businesses to flourish after 1947

Today, 15 August, is an important date for the history books, as it was the day India was granted its independence…

Major UK banks stop trading Qatari currency

Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Tesco Bank have stopped trading in Qatari riyals amid diplomatic tensions in the…

Former Barclays executives charged with committing fraud during the financial crisis

Barclays and four former executives were charged with fraud on Tuesday over agreements struck with Qatar during the 2008 financial…

GDPR regulations could cost banks over €4.7bn in fines in first three years

It’s less than a year until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes in and it looks like the new…

How does blockchain developer stack up in relation to other top city salaries?

Banks and financial services are mad for blockchain (though they have yet to decide what to actually use it for)…

The new generation of digital banks are going struggle to gain a large audience

Around the world, and especially in the UK, a new breed of digital banks are entering the market, hoping to…

British banks are preparing for a worst-case senario Brexit

Michael Cole-Fontayn, the European chair of US bank BNY Mellon, has said that major banks are preparing plans for a…